Centre for Infection & Immunity
Our immune system protects us from infections and diseases mediated by most pathogens. While this immunity generally effective investigating how our body’s immune defenses responds to infection and immunomediated diseases to develop new preventions and treatments.
About the Centre
The Centre for Infection and Immunity aims to make important basic discoveries that would greatly advance our understanding of immune responses. The long term goal of this research is to use this knowledge to manipulate immune cells in order to develop new treatments and therapies that would prevent or limit pathogen infections and decrease immune-mediated pathologies.
Centre Head
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Associate Professor Patrick Bertolino
Head, Centre for Infection & Immunity
Laboratories
The laboratories operating within this centre are:
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Bertolino and Bowen
Research within the Liver Immunology Program aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which the liver induces immunological tolerance. In addition, we seek to characterise the key determinants of effective immune responses in this organ, to facilitate enhancement of immunity in circumstances where this is advantageous. Our research is highly relevant to a range of clinically important settings including transplantation, infections such as viral hepatitis and malaria, and gene therapy.
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Britton
Worldwide, Tuberculosis (TB) is the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19.
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Izzo
The Izzo Laboratory investigates the immune response induced to pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and to vaccination with new tuberculosis vaccines. The overall goal is to determine mechanisms of immunity that will end the tuberculosis pandemic.
Get in touch
To get in touch and for all general enquiries relating to our work, please contact Associate Professor Patrick Bertolino.
Student opportunities
Postdoctoral and postgraduate students can work alongside world-leading medical researchers, with state-of-the-art facilities, in direct collaboration with the University of Sydney, UTS and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
